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As in previous years TNG sponsored the Java Forum Stuttgart again in 2016, attended with a large number of people and gave a talk on "Spark vs. Flink". Furthermore, we sponsored the SoCraTes in Soltau and supported the organization of the event.

At the Flink Meetup Munich two of our employees gave a talk on "Flink in Production: Lessons Learned."

Our annual conference on science and IT, the Big Techday 9, took place on 3 June 2016 in the Westin Grand with over 30 lectures.

TNG employees were present at the TechTalents Meetup with the talk "See like a Terminator – Augmented Reality with Oculus Rift". One of our partners gave a talk "Agile Documentation – interactive and useful" at the Munich group of the German Informatics Society.

Our hardware hacking team took the talk "See like a Terminator - Augmented Reality with the Oculus Rift" to the JavaLand conference and JavaLand Nighthacking at Phantasialand in Brühl, the CeBIT Developer World in Hannover (including an interview with Sascha Pallenberg in the CeBIT Techlounge), Virtual Reality With the Best, Munich's Nerd Nite and the IoT Tech Day 2016 in Utrecht.

One of our employees held a lecture on the topic "Asynchronous Programming with RxJava" at the Munich Java User Group. Another colleague gave a talk "i3 - Efficient Workflow on the UNIX Desktop with a Tiling Window Manager" at the Augsburg Linux User Group. Two employees contributed to the Munich Hadoop & Spark User Group with their lecture "Spark v. Flink".

Two employees gave a talk "Behaviour Driven Development in large projects" at the regional group of the German Informatics Society. Two employees gave the keynote lecture on the topic "See like a Terminator – Augmented Reality with the Oculus Rift" and one of our partners held a talk entitled "Agile Dokumentation – interactive and useful" at the OOP conference.

We also sponsored a workshop weekend on the topic "Node.js for embedded systems". We hosted Design Thinking Munich at TNG.

A team of six consultants was present at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona with several gesture control and augmented reality demos.

Two of our employees gave a talk entitled "Acceptance tested from the start - Behaviour Driven Development in large projects" at the Software Quality Days 2016 in Vienna.

TNG sponsored and hosted the PHP User Group and gave a talk on "micropython" at the Python User Group. Two employees gave a lecture on BadUSB devices at the TUM as part of a lecture series on IT security.

A TNG Managing Partner held a talk on "Big Data in Marketing" on December 2 at the Munich Chamber of Commerce.

TNG sponsored and hosted the Deep Learning Meetup and the Munich Node.js User Group. We also helped to organize the Munich Atlassian User Group and held several talks there.

TNG sponsored the Lean Kanban Central Europe (LKCE) in Munich (16-17 November) and the XP Days Germany 2015 in Karlsruhe (26-28 November), where one of our employees gave a talk "JGiven: a developer-friendly BDD framework for Java".

We spoke on the themes "PHP profiling and common performance hotspots" and "BDD with Behat - an introduction" at the PHP user group in Munich. One of our employees gave a talk "JavaScript Engines under the hood" at the Nodeconf in Barcelona.

We also helped to organize a meeting at "Design Thinking Munich" and were present at several recruiting events.

TNG sponsored the push.conference and provided demonstrations of gesture control for quadrocopters.

One of our employees hosted a session on the topic "Outside-In TDD with the Bank Kata" at a Munich Softwerkskammer event. Two of our employees gave a talk "See the world like a Terminator - Augmented Reality with Oculus Rift" at the Oracle JavaOne & OpenWorld in San Francisco, USA.

TNG sponsored the SoCraTes in Soltau and was represented by a group of participants.

One of our consultants held the talk "A trip to the Zoo" on JavaScript engines at the Nordic.js in Stockholm and the JSConf EU in Berlin. We presented a conference report on the AtlasCamp 2015 at the Munich Atlassian User Group.

TNG sponsored the Java Forum Stuttgart again this year and was represented by a large group of participants. One of our employees gave a talk "JGiven: a developer-friendly BDD-framework for Java".

We also held a workshop "Node.js for Designers" at the WebVisions in Barcelona and a talk "Feedback loops in practice: speed is key" at the TU Munich in Garching. We also organized the PHP Usergroup in Munich.